September 1, 2010

September Border Challenge by Christy

Recently , I participated in Big Picture Scrapbooking's Big Idea Festival. I loved a lot of the projects, however, many of the supplies are just not available to me where I live. So what's a girl to do? Adapt, that's what. Make the design your own. so that's just what I did. I loved the look of Lisa day's bonus project and set out to use it with a series of photos about Junk-a-noo. What is Junk-a-noo you ask? It's a Bahamian tradition...sort of like Mardi Gras or Carnivale. It occurs every year around July 10th (Bahamian Independence day) and around Christmas. Unfortunately, we have never been. It occurs in the middle of the night and literally runs past dawn. While we have never attended, we do see many of the costumes and float decorations around the island. I snapped some photos of my son with those decorations and decided they would make a fun page.




Lisa's design is pretty evident in mine. I varied it by splashing some tiger lily and patina glimmer mist onto the background cardstock. I used some Crate Paper chipboard elements from the pink plum collection. Pages like these are a great way to slip in some girl colors without making the page look to feminine. I used some fussy cut elements from SEI's jocelyn collection to make the rosette's/round flowers and the border strip on the bottom. I cut strips of PP to make the scalloped border for the rosettes/flowers.



If you are like me, you may not have a lot of border punches. I simply don't have the storage space or the budget for them. In fact, I own only 2: an ancient fiskar's punch and an EK success notebook punch. So how did I make the border scalloped?A while back I saw this tip in Creating Keepsakes and I decided to try it... I took the guard off of my corner rounder, and then used it to punch down a strip of paper...which created a scalloped border.


Once you have the border punched, you can easily make it fit around a circle. This will work with any punch or strip of paper and is especially handy for heavier papers that are difficult to fold and pleat. Cut small slits in even increments along the strip. In my case, I chose every 2 scallops. Just be careful not to cut too far into the strip, or it may rip.


I chose to use glue dots to adhere the strip to the flower that I had fussycut. As you adhere each section, you can carefully bend and then slide the next section under the other.




This effectively produces a rounded edge with the strip.



I really enjoy the fun look to this page with the rounded borders. This could easily be done with a straight strip of paper or with most border punch designs.



The borders along the sides of the photos are made with Pink paislee artisan tape. I simply folded it as Lisa had in her design and I hand Stitched over it .


Now let's see wha you can come up with for this month's border challenge!

14 comments:

  1. WOW! I've never seen that technique before. So cool.

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  2. Oh my gosh Christy you've totally rocked this!! And your mini tutorial is great too. I have used the corner punch for scallops but really didn't know how to make them curve around a circle - now I do!! Thanks!!

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  3. Fantastic layout and tutorial! Thank you so much for sharing all the details with us.

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  4. WOW! Love the tutorial! That layout is divine!!!

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  5. WOW AGAIN - this is great - and thanks so much for the awesome tutorial.

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  6. Fabulous layouts!! I love the idea of bending the paper around into a circle....great tut on how to do it too!!! thanks

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  7. Love those fans!!! So pretty :) Here's my take on this month's challenge.

    http://lalasworldblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/lifebook-page-for-lara.html

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  8. very cool! love how you added the scallop border to the circle!

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  9. Beautiful layout!
    I love that fan look you created. Those circles with the scallped adges, go perfectly with the photos.
    Thanks for the tutorial!

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  10. Great tutorial and such a fun page!

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  11. very festive and wonderful tutorial steps. would have been a neat frugal friday tip too! :D love the bold colors and then fun paint splashes. great job!

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  12. Wow great idea!! Love how it looks around the circle!! And great tutorial!!

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  13. I make my scallop borders like this all the time with my corner rounder but I LOVE how you adapted it to create a circle!! Brilliant!

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